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<h2>Do Bee Stings Depend on Previous Stings?</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Data from an experiment to see it the number of bee stings depends on previous stings.
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with 18 observations on the following 3 variables.
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    <code>Occasion</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Trial: I to IX</td>
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    <code>Treatment</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>Fresh</code> or <code>Stung</code></td>
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    <code>Stingers</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Number of stingers</td>
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>If you are stung by a bee, does that make you more likely to get stung again? Might bees leave
behind a chemical message that tells other bees to attack you? To test this hypothesis, scientists
dangled a 4x4 array of 16 muslin-wrapped cotton balls over a beehive.
Eight of 16 balls had been previously stung; the other eight were
fresh. The response was the total number of new stingers left behind by the bees.
The process was repeated for a total of nine trials.
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<p>Used in first edition, but not second edition.
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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Free, J.B. (1961) &quot;The stinging response of honeybees,&quot; Animal Behavior, Vol. 9, pp 193-196.
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